Basically your friends are not your friends for any particular reason. They are your friends for no particular reason. The job you do, the family you have, the way you vote, the major achievements and blunders of your life, your religious convictions or lack of them, are all somehow set off to one side when the two (or more) of you are together. If you are old friends, you know all these things about each other and a lot more besides, but they are beside the point. Even if you talk about them, they are beside the point. Stripped, humanly speaking, to the bare essentials, you are yourselves the point. The usual distinctions of older-younger, richer-poorer, smarter-dumber, male-female, cease to matter. You meet with a clean slate every time, and you meet on equal terns. Anything may come of it or nothing may. That doesnt matter. Only the meeting matters. ~Frederick Buechner
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:36:16 +0000
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